Marcel Anselme (1925-1982) - Vanitas du Faisan

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Hand-signed.

- The vanitas in Anselme’s hand sheds its former theater of skulls and clepsydras to take refuge in the gravity of the everyday, where finitude does not shout, but gravitates. In that “vibrant sobriety,” time is not a vertiginous escape into nothingness, but a sedimentation of being upon the rough skin of a fruit or the silent weight of a bird; it is the density of matter asserting itself against the void in a final and luminous act of resistance. Here, domestic introspection transmutes the still life into an altar of the ephemeral, where each object, in its baked quietude, confesses that true transcendence does not reside in marble pomp, but in the sacred and heavy beauty of what, aware of its mortality, dares to inhabit the light for a little longer.

- Dimensions of the image without frame: 60 x 73 cm / 75 x 88 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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